Kalia scheme to be merged with PM-KISAN: State Government 10/12/2019 – Posted in: Daily News

KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) scheme

 

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Topics covered:

  • About KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) scheme
  • About Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) yojana

 

News Flash

The Odisha government has decided to merge its KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation) scheme to provide assistance to farmers with the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) yojana, apparently due to financial constraint.

The scheme will continue in the State even though it will be converged with Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi.

 

Key Highlights

  • Under the convergence scheme, all those eligible under PM-KISAN will get Rs.6,000 per household from the Centre and Rs 4,000 from the State.
  • An agriculture worker will be eligible to get the assistance of Rs.12,500 in three installments (Rs.5,000, Rs.3,000 and Rs.4,500 respectively) for livelihood activities like goatery, backyard poultry, poultry, apiculture, mushroom cultivation, duckery and fishing kit.
  • The department has opened a grievance portal for farmers to register their complaints and submit documents for validation of their applications.
  • Assistance will be released directly to the accounts of those applicants who will be found eligible after verification.
  • Under the provision of KALIA scheme, small and marginal farmers, share croppers, landless agricultural labourers and farmers in distress will be provided financial assistance for augmenting their income.

 

KALIA Scheme

  • KALIA Scheme, Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation, aims to lend farmers with an all-inclusive and flexible support system, ensuring accelerated agricultural prosperity.
  • The scheme has been tailored to relieve the debt-ridden farmers from the debt trap, keeping a pragmatic vision to directly attack poverty by providing financial assistance to the vulnerable agriculture households, landless labourers as well as marginal cultivators of the state.

 

Features

  1. Financial assistance of Rs.25,000/- per farm family over five seasons will be provided to small and marginal farmers so that farmers can purchase inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and use assistance towards labour and other investments. This scheme is implemented from current Rabi Season 2018-19 onwards.
  2. Financial Assistance of Rs.12,500/-will be provided to each landless Agricultural Household for Agricultural allied activities like for small goat rearing unit, mini-layer unit, duckery units, fishery kits for fisherman, mushroom cultivation and bee-keeping, etc. This will particularly benefit to SC & ST population of our State.
  3. Vulnerable cultivators/landless agricultural laborers will get financial assistance of Rs. 10,000/- per family per year to enable them to take care of their sustenance. The vulnerable cultivator/landless Agricultural Laborers who are in old age, having disability/ disease and are vulnerable for any other reason.
  4. Life insurance cover of Rs. 2.00 lakh at a very nominal premium of Rs.330/- will be provided to all savings bank account holder of age between 18-50 years. Government of Odisha will bear farmers’ share of annual premium of Rs.165/-.
  5. Personal accident cover of Rs.2.00 lakh at a very nominal annual premium of Rs.12/- for all savings bank account holder aged between 18-50 years. Out of Rs.12/- towards premium, Rs.6/- is the farmers’ share, which will be borne by the Govt. of Odisha.
  6. In respect of the above beneficiary whose age is between 51-70 years, the entire amount of Rs.12/- towards annual premium will be borne by Govt. of Odisha.

 

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) yojana

  • It is a Central Sector scheme with 100% funding from Government of India. The Scheme is effective from 1.12.2018.
  • Under the Scheme an income support of Rs.6000/- per year is provided to all farmer families across the country in three equal installments of Rs.2000/- each every four months.
  • The definition of family for the Scheme is husband, wife and minor children.
  • The entire responsibility of identification of beneficiary farmer families rests with the State / UT Governments.
  • The fund is directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
  • Farmers covered under the Exclusion Criteria of the Operational Guidelines are not eligible for the benefit of the Scheme.

 

Source: Indian Express

 

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